Frame-Dragging Reveals Central Engine of a Superluminous Supernova
Dr. Logan Prust
Center for Computational Astrophysics - Simons Foundation

Type I superluminous supernovae (SLSNe-I) are an order of magnitude brighter than standard supernovae, with the internal power source for their luminosity still unknown. The central engines of SLSNe-I are hypothesized to be magnetars, but many SLSNe-I light curves exhibit multiple bumps or peaks that are unexplained by the standard magnetar model.

Effect of Phosphorylation Barcodes on Arrestin Binding to a Chemokine Receptor
Dr. Qiuyan Chen
Assistant Professor of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Indiana University School of Medicine

Cells often fine-tune their responses to signals through chemical tags called phosphorylation 'barcodes' placed on receptors at the cell surface. Different G-protein coupled receptor (GPCR) kinases (GRKs) add these barcodes at different sites, but how these patterns influence arrestins — key proteins that control receptor signaling and trafficking — has been unclear.

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